| ROMEOANDJULIET | Lovers' memory of dawn before a month in parliament (5,3,6) |
| BEHIND | "Many a new face will please my eye; Many a new love will find me; Never've I once looked back to sigh; Over the romance ... me; Many a new day will dawn before I do!" |
| NICARAGUA | Country sport almost over before a month is up |
| PHANTOM | Spectre appears softly before a month is out |
| WELCOMETOMIAMI | Line immediately after "All night, on the beach till the break of dawn" in a 1997 Will Smith hit |
| BRIGHTANDEARLY | At the crack of dawn, economist acquires article at great cost |
| ANORDINARYKILLER | Book by Anthony Hornus, and a 2003 film about the murder of Dawn Magyar in 1973 in Michigan (2,8,6) |
| YEARDOT | Indeed, right before origins of dawn of time? (4,3) |
| AUBADE | Word for a sunrise song or a musical announcement of dawn (6) |
| NOEND | Abundance of reflected light before first sign of dawn (2,3) |
| FIRSTLIGHT | Characters in stir involved in escape at the crack of dawn (5,5) |
| BERTH | Mention of dawn in room on a ship (5) |
| PANPIPER | Pot and bongs at the gates of dawn in Wind in the Willows (3,5) |
| DAYSPRING | A somewhat archaic and poetic word for the bursting forth of dawn and the morning's first rays of light (9) |
| ASIMOV | Author of "The Robots of Dawn" |
| COCKATRICE | Herald of dawn, a second fabulous creature |
| MORNING | - Mood ; depiction of dawn in Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Op. 23 (7) |
| EARLYBIRDS | Keeners in Engineering hitting library at start of dawn on Saturday (5,5) |
| ENGILDS | Bathes in the light of dawn, poetically |
| LINEOFSIGHT | Direct view of Spooner's indication of dawn? (4,2,5) |
